In Honor of Earth Day...

As a mother juggling a toddler, owning a small fitness business and currently baking a second little child, I have found the craftiness in reusing continers to help store the mess — I mean items — in our home.

I'm thankful that recycling is trendy and in honor of Earth Day this month I wanted to share a 3 tricks I've learned over the past 3 years that have made my life a little easier.

Apple Sauce Containers - My child will rarely eat out of the plastic little bowls.  I almost always end up spooning the sauce into a Sili Squeeze so she can squeeze it out like a Plum Organics pouch. I realized one day that the little plastic bowl was a perfect size for toddler fingers and held a decent serving size for my little one.  It also fits nicely into car seat cup holders!  Plus they can't break these bowls; win-win.

Coffee Containers - Oh, the happiness when I put down an empty, washed, coffee container for the toddler to play with! As an infant she could bang on it like a drum. When she got older we learned how to sort toys and it helped with our clean up routine.

Flavored Drink Packets Containers - I think they're secretly working with Crayola because markers fit in them so well. I started using them to store the markers in the arts & crafts drawers because we all know toddlers cannot open a box of anything without ripping the box to shreds. They are also useful to store crayons in the diaper bag so you have crayons on hand and if it gets too hot, they won't make a mess in the bag.